Anadolu Ajansi: 26 years since assassination of Dzhokhar Dudayev, symbol of independence struggle in Chechnya
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Dzhokhar Dudayev
Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev was a Chechen politician, revolutionary and military leader of the 1990s Chechen independence movement from Russia. He served as the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria from 1991 until his assassination in 1996. Dudayev had previously served as a senior officer in the Soviet Air Forces.
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politics · First President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria · aircraft pilot · politician · military officer · soldier · also Dzhokhar Dudayev, Dzhokhar Musayevich Dudayev, Dudayev
Born 15 February 1944 · Died 21 April 1996 · Q179846
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1996· 3 entries
Died 1996-04-21.
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A street in Lviv was named вулиця Джохара Дудаєва (Dzhokhar Dudayev Street), later followed by a street in Ivano-Frankivsk and a street in Khmelnytskyi
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A street in the Latvian capital Riga was named Džohara Dudajeva gatve (Dzhokhar Dudaev Street)
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1995· 1 entry
Career landmark: Participated in Vzglyad (tournament / event).
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1993· 1 entry
The Chechen parliament attempted to organize a referendum on public confidence in Dudayev on the grounds that he had failed to consolidate Chechnya's independence
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1991· 3 entries
Career landmark: President of Ichkeria (1991–1996).
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Its former entity Ingushetia opted to join the Russian Federation as a federal subject (Republic of Ingushetia)
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Dudayev refused orders from Moscow to suppress Estonia's independence movement, and subsequently resigned from the Soviet Armed Forces before returning to Chechnya
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1990· 1 entry
His air division was withdrawn from Estonia and Dudayev resigned from the Soviet military
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1974· 1 entry
Studied at Gagarin Air Force Academy (1971–1974).
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1968· 1 entry
And from 1971 to 1974 studied at the prestigious Gagarin Air Force Academy
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1966· 1 entry
Studied at M. M. Raskova Higher Military Aviation School of Pilots in Tambov (1962–1966).
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1962· 2 entries
Dudayev began serving in the Soviet Air Force where he rose to the rank of Major-General, becoming its first Chechen general
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After two years studying electronics in Vladikavkaz, he entered the Tambov Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots from which he graduated in 1966
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1944· 2 entries
Born 1944-02-15.
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Days before his family and the entire Chechen nation were deported to Central Asia by the Soviet regime as part of an Soviet deportations which affected several million members of ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union be
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